#and the scope of the job.

[loremastering]

i'm never sure how to desribe daerhovan's particular nature boy aesthetic. he's not a disney princess nor like a dnd druid. he's more like, if you combined david attenborough and john muir (with a smidgen of jeff corwin) into one person. if a scientist had infinite income to do his research. if a park ranger was a cryptid. if a person was rich and immortal enough to be a biologist, zoologist, botanist, and naturalist all in one with a hobby interest in archaeology.

[vigilskeep]

rlly enjoying playing a little brosca, idk if i’ll stick with her long but she tends to go for the dialogue options that i don’t usually pick so the dialogue feels a lot fresher which is a hugeee win when u have played the intro as many times as i have

[elizabethrobertajones]

I could be your angle... or yuor devil..,

[ducktracy]

Does it ever feel pressuring (no pun intended) to work on a show with such a legacy and history as SpongeBob?

VERY much so, but in a good way, if such a thing exists! one of our mantras on our little storyboard plussing team is “pressure makes diamonds” and it is a very applicable saying

when i first started, i was TEEEEERRRIFIED! i really felt like i had no idea what i was doing, and there have been so many times where i’ve turned in a section and genuinely thought “oh my god they’re gonna fire me for this it’s so bad.” working in animation is frazzling enough! but not only are we working on a cultural mecca, with not only the kids of today to entertain, impress and inspire, but to maintain the integrity of the series and entertain/impress/inspire the kids like us who grew up with the show, we are also working with literal animation legends and animation veterans!! it’s pretty surreal to be working on the same show as someone like Bob Camp, who’s been in the industry for 40+ years… and even more surreal when he says he’s a big fan of your work 😵‍💫‼️‼️‼️‼️

THANKFULLY, i’ve made a lot of strides in curbing some of my storyboarding stage fright. it used to be really bad when i started, like genuinely panic attack inducing! the constant patience and guidance and encouragement of my peers and consistent practice from these past three years have really allowed me to grow and blossom. now, when i feel a bit claustrophobic in remembering the pure scale of what we’re doing, i weaponize it for good!!

i think of how inspired and amazed and obsessed with SpongeBob i was as a kid. how it inspired me to draw, how i remember drawing along to episodes and commercial breaks. my brother and his wife are both elementary school teachers and routinely update me about how their kids are still crazy for SB (and they both brag about me to their kids heheh). i think of all the kids watching, all the kids realizing that getting to draw these characters and interact with them and live in their world is something you indeed can do, all the kids who religiously catch each new episode like i once did… it just fills me with so much confidence and hope and love, and that motivates me to deliver and do my best and try to do what i can to help make each episode be better and more fun than the last

SpongeBob is for everyone, obviously! that’s one of the great things i love about working on it: i get just as much enjoyment watching our finished episodes as our target audience. but i do bring up the kids particularly often because, at the end of the day, that is who we are doing it for and i also just can’t help but think back to how my SpongeBob obsessed self as a kid would have had her world rocked to know i’m doing what i’m doing. i want to give those kids, who i used to be and still essentially am, the same joy and spark and all consuming inspiration i felt and still do

there are definitely some days where the gravity of what we’re doing hits harder than others! some days are a lot more difficult than others. this is an absolute dream job, i’m not just saying that, i always fantasized about maybe one day being able to work my way up to working on SpongeBob and now it’s my first animation job—but it is very easy to get overwhelmed by just how big of a legacy we’re carrying on our shoulders! how many other mega talented people work on this show! there’s a lot to juggle. but we juggle it well. there is so much love and heart and care poured into this show. we do everything we can to maintain the integrity of the characters and the show’s core, and it just makes me love what i do all the more and makes me more determined to do it

TLDR: YES! but i’m much better off for it, because it reminds me of why we’re working so hard to begin with. we all want this show to be the best it can—to maintain its core 25 years later, but still have fun doing it. i mentioned this on Twitter, but when i met Bill Fagerbakke last month he was saying how cool it is that fans who grew up with the show are now able to work on it and i couldn’t agree more. it’s the greatest honor imaginable being able to carry such a monumental torch, and i hope i’m able to keep at it for a long, long time.

[icewindandboringhorror]

finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

I like how occasionally toshiros fast and loose w his morals its fun

[novelmonger]

I've started on the next unit of my scoping course, which is just a bunch of transcripts to edit like it's the real deal. I'm 55 pages into the first one so far, and it's going pretty well - but they're supposed to get harder as they go along, so we'll see.

My updates are probably going to be pretty boring for a while, because I'll be chugging away at this for a long time. I can't look ahead; I can only see the lesson I'm currently on, but if they're more or less comparable to this one, I'm looking at 15 reporters with 5 files each. So by my calculations, that means 75 transcripts, and the length varies quite a bit from one to another, but it averages to 90 pages per transcript, so that's something like 6,750 pages that I'll be going through by the end of this @_@

If I'm not ready to scope by the end of this, I don't know what's wrong with me!

[madnessofmen]

using the microscope at work to do surgery on myself at 50x magnification 👍

[kirinda-ondo]

I need it to be September already

Trying to hold on until the week of my birthday because I've got a paid vacation that week but good lordy I am tired now and waiting slightly less then a full month for my other coworkers to take their weeks of vacation is going to be painful

But I will stay silly and persevere :'3 👍

[battle-of-alberta]

that's right MORE tales from Ed's Job :) Meet Marvin! and it's been a long time since I did a mayoral cameo i'msorrymr.sohi

won't someone come downtown and meet ed please

did we mention the GIANT SPACE WALL you can touch if you come downtown!?!?!?!?!

OR THE PRETTY LIGHTS???

BLEASE!

[guzsdaily]

First Task

Daily Blogs 291 - Aug 22nd, 12.024

I've been assigned a task, which to be honest, kinda surprised since it is just the second day at this job, but at least now I have reasons to set up my work environment to work with their projects (and learn how to use a debugger in NeoVim for the first time, ~~wish me luck~~). And it is a task to do alongside the other junior developer, which helps.

Also finally got the laptop, but the touchpad is not working, so I will have to wait some more time. I will probably use it mostly as a server/computer to log into using SSH, so I can spare some ram in my personal/main computer.

Nonetheless, I'm kinda tired right now, a lot of information and talking drains me, and I don't know if I will program my projects today.

Today's artists & creative things Music: VHS - by ZeRO

© 2024 Gustavo "Guz" L. de Mello. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

[steelycunt]

one of my very favorite phrases to put in an essay is ‘it is not the argument of this essay that [x]’ ‘[x] is beyond the scope of this essay’…yeah pricks can’t claim to misunderstand me now can you i told you exactly what i’m doing. explain [x]? well ive already told you that’s not my job. read your own question again, you wanker. ive drawn my lines in the sand!!!!!

[beillus]

Still on that One Piece hyperfixation. Expect much more.

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[cbk1000]

I'm really fucking sick of hearing how smart I am and then being given tasks a monkey could do.

[starbuck]

if they paid a living wage, interpretive jobs really would be one of the few kinds of non-evil work in existence… you literally just get to be in a space… and share it with people… crazy…

[arzuros-pilled]

the urge to kill myself would be so much weaker if i wasnt disabled and i could support myself financially lol